[evancordell]

I've recently settled on a mostly-free self-hosting platform: Jekyll + Github Pages + Google Domains + Kloudsec.

Jekyll and Github Pages keeps the deployment simple and Google Domains has proven to be simple, cheap, and reliable. I tried Kloudsec out last week on a whim after seeing it on HN, and so far it's great - simple, free SSL with let's encrypt.

https://evancordell.com if interested. It needs a little more love before I'd really say I'm pleased with it, but I'm very happy with how cheap and easy it was to set up a personal blog with SSL.

[terminalcommand]

I wish I had chosen github pages as my hosting platform too. Instead I bought a shared hosting on cyber Monday. I'm using middleman.

Coding the stylesheet for the blog and getting the whole site working was certainly fun but writing handcoded markdown and publishing via the shell surely requires some getting used to.

My advice: use github pages for your blog to avoid the guilt of paying for hosting services that you don't need. http://unixheaven.com if anyone's interested.

[tdkl]

So you didn't had to transfer the DNS control to Kloudsec to get CDN + SSL like with Cloudflare ?

I'm hosting my site on Github Pages as well, but Gandi as my DNS. I considered Cloudflare at the time, but would had to move the DNS from Gandi to Cloudflare and pay 20$ to Gandi for that.